Improvement in eyeleting-machines



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SEND, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Leiters Patent No. 93,353, dated A'ngustf, 1869.'

IMPROVEMENT IN EYELETINGMACHINE S.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pa rt oi' the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH F. SARGENT, of- Meh rose, in the county of Middlesex, and State of ,Mas-

sachusetts, have invented an Improved Eyeleting- Machine;` and I do hereby declare that the following,

taken in connection with the drawings which accom-- lto Elmer Townsend, assignee, (to whom the present invention is alsov assigned,) there is shown a hopper,

combined with a sliding chute, (of which it forms a' pa1t,) and with la vertically' reciprocating eyelet-pin and setting-tool.

Within this hopper is a vibrating brush, or set of brushes, which urge the eyelets against the passages leading from thehoppen into the chute, the action. of the brushes, and the reciprocating motion of the hopper, causing the eyeletsto pass into the chute, down which they slide toward the setting-tools.

The action of the brushes is not, however, very reliable .in keeping the chute charged with eyelets, and my present invention' has particular reference to such construction and arrangement of the parts as shall cause the chute to -be kept fully supplied, for which purpose I combine with the reciprocating chute4 a hopper, or eyelet-containing reservoir, which not only reciprocates with thechut'c, but which has, at each reciprocating movement of the chute ald hopper, a

rotative movement, the eiect of whici combined movements is such as to throw the eyelets from the hopper into the chute, in such manner as to insure the presence of eyelets at allA times in the chute, and generally in force sufficient to keep the chute constantly iilled.

It is in thisv construction that nly invention consists; that is to say, in combining with a reciprocating eyclet-pin and, setting-tool, and with a reciprocating eyeletchute, an eyclet-containing hopper or reservoir, which not only reciprocates with' the chute, but which also has an intermittent rotative movement.

The drawings represent a machine embodying my improvements.

A and B show the x,machine in side elevation.

. C is a plan of the machine, the part of the mechanism'ab'ove the red linein A being represented as distorted or brokclnnor thrown down to a horizontal plane.

a denotes the trame-work, at the front of which is 'a post, b, containing the vertically reciprocating eyelet-set' c, over which is the stationary set (l, against which the cyelet is clinched by the set c.

c denotes the chute, down through which the eyelets slide, from the eyeletcontaining box or hopper f, to the eyelet-pin g of the set c, the hopper being provided with passages which connect with the chute, and which-let the eyelets from the hopper into the 'chute'whem and only when, such eyelets are in upright position, and the chute having a reciprocating motion in the plane of its length, so as to bring each eyelet, at its lower end, in succession, into vertical line with the reciprocating set, and to move back the end of `the chute from the line of movement of the set c, after the eyelet-pin has taken the cyelet upon its point. y

The eyeletbox or hopper placed at the-upper end of the chute-plate, but instead of being stationary, relatively to such plate, it is fixed upon a pin, 71, and rotates with such pin, which passes down through the chute-plate, and turns loosely in its bearings.`

Upon this pin is iixed a ratchet-wheel, i, with which engages a spring-pawl, 7:, said pawl being jointed to a rocker-arm, l, turning loosely on the shai't, this arm being jointed, by a link, on, to a rocker-lever, n, piv- .oted to the standard or frame a.-

This lever (which 'also directly imparts the reciprocating movement to the chute and hopper) is connected, by a link, o, jointed to an arm, 1), projectivmgv from the piston g, to. the top ot' which the movable.

set c is fixed. The piston q is jointed to one arm, yr, of a toggle# lever, the other arm, s, ot' which is jointed to the standard, and is operated by a suitable treadle.

- One arm of the rocker-lever n carries a projection,

t, which, when the piston q descends, strikes a shoulder, 1l, on the chute-plate, and slides the chute down, p

to bring the end eyclet into position over the eyeletpin y, and when the piston rises, a cam projection, 4f, on such lever-arm, strikes a friction-roll, w, oi' a pin projecting from the chute-plate, and throws the chute back, so as to carryr its end out pf the path ofthe eyelet-pin g; and as, at each reciprocation of the eyelet-set, the eyelet-box or hopper thus has imparted to it, not only the reciprocating lmovement ot' the chute, but a rotative movement, the eyelets are kept in such agitation as to impel them constantly against the passages into the chute, by sliding through which they keep the chute charged, the movements of the hopper being suiiicient for this purpose, without any assistant brushes, or other mechanism, to

drive them into contact with or through the openings into the chute.

y, In eyeleting-machines employing a hopper, havingv an intermittent rotative `n1ovement, it is desirable that the hopper mer have? provision for rotative movement in each direction, or a positive mo'vement away from the chute, and a friction movement toward it. For this purpose, I so arrange vthe ratchet andpawl, that while the ratchet is driveuibrward hy the' pawl, it may slip back with ithy friction. 1,

In 4the drawings, a nut or collar, x, surrounds the rotating pin uponwhich the hopper is mounted, and the ratchet and pawl-lever are pressed up against this nut or collar by a spring, y.

When the pawl is pushed upward, it moves the ratchet with it, by its engagement with'fthe ratchetteeth, and when the pawl moves back,the'pressnre of the spring causes the ratchet (and therehythe hopper upon the ratchet-shaft) to move back withthe pawl, 'unless an eyelet happens to havel partially passed from the fhopper to the chute, in which case the pawl-lever slips, and lets' the hopperremain stationarv.

ated by a ratchet and pawl, such an arrangement of the ratchet and pawl mechanism as to canse the hopper to have a positive rotative movement in one direction, and a friction br slipping movement in the other direction, substantially as described.

Witnesses:

J, B. CROSBY, FRANCIs Gonnn. 

